Jake Stattel

All the Single Ladies? Detector finds, dispersed data and suboptimal sources in the study of Viking Age metalwork In a growing number of countries, the activities of hobby detector users are lauded as a vital source of information about the past. The present paper argues that this statement is not unequivocal. An...

ICYMI: Deckers, P. 2025 All the single ladies? Detector finds, dispersed data and suboptimal sources in the study of Viking Age metalwork, Internet Archaeology 68. doi.org/10.11141/ia....

The Herefordshire Viking Hoard - Current Archaeology In 2019, pieces of a stolen Viking hoard were recovered; since then, analysis of these artefacts has shed new light on Anglo-Saxon England.

More on the Herefordshire Hoard over on @currentarchaeology.bsky.social - dig that incredible rock crystal ball pendant, of similar vintage as one from the Galloway Hoard deposited not long after archaeology.co.uk/articles/fea...

Today I start my research trip sailing down the River Seine from Paris to Honfleur (via a few stops) in a reconstruction of the Klåstad cargo ship built in 998. It’s the penultimate stage in the ship’s journey from Rome to London throughout the summer. I’ll post updates as we go #Saga25 #MedievalSky

Were the Normans Vikings? No. Well, fine, I suppose given I have compelled others to elaborate in similar situations I should put a bit more here. The Bayeux Tapestry is coming to the UK from Autumn next year, and with the …

Very happy to read this new post by @ralphtorta.bsky.social which answers a question I often see online. Were the Normans actually Vikings? #medievalsky #vikings #normans

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Illustrations of a tattoo depicting a deer being attacked by a griffin, showing it: A) in its current state; B) recreated to fill in missing elements and account for skin desiccation; and C) an idealised rendering (credit: D. Riday).

NEW How did ancient tattooers learn their craft?

High-res, near infrared photography and collaboration with modern tattooers reveals the complex process behind tattoos on Siberia's 'ice mummies'.

#AntiquityThread 1/14 🧵

Warning: this thread contains images of human remains

Girton medievalist Professor Anthony Bale elected as Fellow of the British Academy

🎉 We’re thrilled to share that Girton Fellow Professor Anthony Bale has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy, in honour of his outstanding contributions to scholarship.

Read more ➡️ https://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/news/girton-medievalist-professor-anthony-bale-elected-fellow-british-academy

I really enjoyed this chat, in which we tried to ask what exactly was early medieval about early medieval international relations. #medievalsky #internationalrelations

The Cambridge Medieval History Graduate Workshop is seeking abstracts for presentations by graduate students from any discipline or university on any aspect of the period c.500-1500! #cfp #medievalsky

YouTube video by History With Hilbert I've written a book. Well, we've written a book.

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Me and @history-w-hilbert.bsky.social are writing a book! Non-fiction. History. Early medieval. We’re going to chart the North Sea from 350 to 793 CE on one long whale-road towards the dawn of the Viking Age!

This is a story of pilgrims, potentates, & pirates…

Worth bookmarking.

@britannica.com made the fairly basic error of conflating what Edward I got his hands on in 1282 (and called Wales - the lands of the princes of Gwynedd), with the whole of the territory of the nation of what is now Cymru/Wales.

A useful thread from @garicgymro.bsky.social:

Girton Fellows solve a 130-year-old Chaucerian literary mystery

I'm so thrilled to have this published! Starting from a chat over lunch at @girtoncollege.bsky.social, James Wade & I chipped away at this & have made some fascinating discoveries.

The actual article should be published later today. In the meantime, more here: www.cam.ac.uk/stories/song...

Among the Ruins History, Writing, and the Medieval Past

Since we are having another round of Substack discourse, here is my blog on early medieval history:
among-the-ruins.ghost.io

Please consider subscribing!

@katefalardeau.bsky.social

Camedieval A blog for graduate medievalists

Not a journal, but I used to help run the Camedieval blog which is still active as a place to share any work in a more casual venue! camedieval.wordpress.com

...and it's out!

"‘People and Things Have Always Been Mixed Up’: Notes on the So-Called Global Middle Ages", my very short essay for the Journal of Medieval History's 50th-anniversary special issue, is now published; limited free access at the link below!

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RAEXD...

Call for Papers from @em-ehx.bsky.social and I for IMC Leeds 2026: 'New Perspectives on the Viking Diaspora'. Send us a title and abstract by 18 August! @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2026 #Medievalists #Medievalsky #EarlyMedieval #VikingStudies

Now, if you are wanting to read some good work on #BayeuxTapestry, here's a thread. By the way, the pun wasn't intentional on Wednesday and isn't now. I'm not that funny. First up: Gale Owen-Crocker, textile historian par excellence www.medats.org.uk/officer/gale... #medievalsky 1/

Very lucky to have accompanied NW Heritage to the preview of the ‘Viking North’ exhibition at Yorkshire Museum. I’ll post more pics soon. Highly recommended. Big congrats to Andy Woods and Adam Parker for making it happen #medievalsky #york

Book cover text: Studies in Regional and Local History Volume 23. Landscapes and Producers in Medieval England - Essays Presented to Rosamond Faith. Edited by Richard Purkiss and Hannah Boston. Book cover image: three figures moving with scythes, two working and one resting, from BL Cotton MS Tiberius B. V, Part 1, f. 6v.

Finally able to share: A Festschrift in honour of the one and only Ros Faith. Twelve essays on peasants and rural society in the 7th-14th centuries, edited by @hannah-boston.bsky.social and me, coming later this year with UHerts Press.
www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...

Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3

Our new article is out in Speculum! @robin-f.bsky.social called it “ #isotopes for poets” it’s a fab ongoing interdisciplinary project on a late #Roman & #EarlyMedieval cemetery in Hampshire read more 🔗 https//doi.org/10.... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #archsci

YouTube video by JORVIK Viking Centre JORVIK Viking Centre at 40

Great to see the film marking JORVIK’s 40th anniversary available on YouTube - featuring various interviews with the original project team. I was fortunate to be at the premiere back in February, and can wholeheartedly recommend. Congrats to @christuckley.bsky.social and
@jorvikviking.bsky.social!

To read more about the Isle, if you’re interested, the Uni of Cambridge recently published my article on four 7th c. battles that occurred (or may have occurred) here; www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We can now be pretty sure who it was that assembled and wrote most of Great Domesday. That man was Gerard, chancellor of England, cantor of Winchester Cathedral, nephew of Bishop Wakelin: liturgist and singer as well as scribe and administrator. What a time to be a medievalist!

Societies & groups for historians, UK and Ireland Join the conversation

Our event today with heads of selected UK #History societies is a reminder of the dedication, expertise, civic sense, dynamism and, yes, value of these subject societies.

If you'd like to keep in touch with them, we've a Starter Pack bit.ly/4jKumCE which now lists 125 such groups #Skystorians 1/2

Offa’s Dyke Journal 6 I am delighted to announce the online publication of Offa’s Dyke Journal: A Journal for Linear Monuments, Frontiers and Borderlands 6 for 2024. The sixth annual open-access peer-reviewed …

Offa's Dyke Journal 6 #offasdykejournal howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/o...

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The Limits of the Danelaw* Abstract. The Danelaw is commonly understood as the largest of three legal provinces in tenth- to twelfth-century England, extending from Yorkshire to Midd

Delighted to see this out with @enghistrev.bsky.social: A new look at the thing we call the Danelaw. What's behind the idea that England had three legal provinces, one of them Danish? And what did contemporary writers actually mean by 'Dena lagu'? (Open Access) doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...

Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England Cambridge Core - European Studies - Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England

Free to download for the next two weeks: Rick Sowerby's excellent new book Natural and Supernatural in Early #Medieval England!

#medievalsky

Small Change in the Early Middle Ages | Studies in the Early Middle Ages

For anyone who is interested, the open-access version of this is now available: www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...

I've put together a legal history starter pack for anyone interested in the history of crime & punishment, law, policing, social control, and violence. Please let me know if you want to (or know someone who should) be added to the list.
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In case you missed it, we had two fabulous posts go live on the blog this week!

On Monday, we had a new Historian Highlight featuring 2nd-year PhD Student @emmaolson5.bsky.social , who talked all things soundscapes, religious violence, and medieval history!
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